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by valand 4y ago
Reminds me of the PAGNI posts from a couple of days ago. 2. This depends on how much you want to have control over your core business technicalities. Open source works wonders if we're dealing with complex standards, but not when the s
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by valand 4y ago
> They don't actually move with speed, but with haste. All possible corners are cut. This sentence strikes me at my trauma center. The company I'm in is at the critical phase of startup. 4 years down the road of hypergrowth, th
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by valand 4y ago
An alternative way to deal with an unreliable prototype is to make a reliable wrapper around it. Such as paying time in exchange for reliability (e.g. TCP/IP, retry and backoff), disclaimer for unreliable behavior and law-related issue
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by valand 4y ago
I kind of did. Tldr: gather some allies, create a secret council, push changes from the inside. It is an ongoing thing, but I found friends with the same values and we are trying to change the environment that cause the burnouts. At the sam
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by valand 4y ago
The difference is that database is an external entity. The physical representation of the database's state is not owned by your app. On the other hand your redux instance is owned by your client side app. It lives and dies with your ap
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by valand 4y ago
Preach! Data modelling and managing complexity (or I prefer to say knowledge organization) is a prerequisites for every software program ever. I'd add one more: System design. Basically dealing with many asynchronous moving parts, mana
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by valand 4y ago
As someone who watched a company grow from 15 to 400 people in a rushed time, I found that distinguishing good manager from the bad ones is easy. Good manager cares and bad manager don't. Bad manager asks questions, but then discard th
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by valand 4y ago
I found it quite hard myself, but there are a couple of values that I use as heuristic: - it is either looking to get sustainable as early as possible, - or, if not, it is a research into the unknown (e.g. quantum computing, different purpo
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by valand 4y ago
Been doing it for 2 years because I specifically am looking for company looking for founding staff which is hyper-selective. The worst thing is to be refused without knowing what's wrong so you're kept wondering why. Is it geograp
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Algae biopanel windows make power, oxygen and biomass, and suck up CO2(newatlas.com)
2 points by valand 4y ago|0 comments
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by valand 4y ago
Their songs speak controlled chaos. I've known them only for 4 years and I have been captivated with how meditative their songs sound, inspite of the genre.
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by valand 4y ago
> I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code Same here. Med to high pitch does the same effect as words for me. But undecipherable words or ambients does not have the same paralyzing effect as words, things like metal gro
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by valand 4y ago
People forget that DRY means "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system". The principle concerns the duplication of knowledge, not code. Author's reference to &quot
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by valand 4y ago
> But web developers need to understand 100% this. Though devs in one might not move to the other in short period. So this knowledge should come from outside of their work, which I don't find many in the net.
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by valand 4y ago
About the video, I should have made it clear that the video only talks about functional domain modelling. Before we got into where state should be and when is UI reload/rerender triggered. I'm going to tell you a little imaginary
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by valand 4y ago
I realize that I probably contribute in overloading the term actor. This "thing" is partially influenced by actor pattern. The other influences are entity component system and Alan Kay's original of OOP.
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by valand 4y ago
I haven't worked with Qt so I don't know how the API looks, But on a complex app, to see "dirty bitflags", "intermediate values", "redrew the UI in the middle of mutating document state", I feel what
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by valand 4y ago
Those are conflated because on complex webapp developers own the problems with state management, sequencing of methods, concurrency, caching, queueing, categorizing actors, etc. The developers in this set would understand the need to separa
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by valand 4y ago
Almost true. As someone who have been working on a complex desktop app for 4 years now. I found that state management solutions are always incomplete for the problems we have in our team. When you say "stop acting like react", it
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by valand 4y ago
> Was this article written by an AI? This is my first thought too. The author sounds like they know FP by swallowing all kinds of info about it from articles around the net regardless of them being right or wrong.
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Toward Robust(valand.dev)
2 points by valand 4y ago|0 comments
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by valand 4y ago
From my observation, we programmers are supposed to have two non-discrete modes of programming: 1.) the trial&error (or jiggle) mode and 2.) the literate mode. Trial&error mode works well when working with randoms, e.g. exploration,
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by valand 4y ago
Some languages achieve error checking by type transforms and pattern matching, which are much more effective and efficient than error checks after every function call
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by valand 4y ago
As someone who don't work actively in both Go and Rust, I perceive Rust to be readable and I feel more comfortable writing in Rust due to how strict it is in term of correctness. If I have to write go, I need to have an IDE well setup.
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by valand 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763327
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by valand 5y ago
How would you explain an assailant-victim relationship without describing both the assailant and the victim though?
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by valand 5y ago
SPA usually consists of bulky js files if not utilizing lazy-loading correctly. The size makes it slow. But, I think this thread is conflating SPA vs MPA and compile-time vs request-time "rendering". With the same complexity, comp
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by valand 5y ago
Without numbers, I doubt this. With the same computer spec, serving file via HTTP (gatsby) is cheaper - or at least wont scale parallel to complexity - compared to WordPress which build the page at request-time, unless I'm not up to d
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Parallels of Antifragility in Software Space(valand.dev)
2 points by valand 5y ago|0 comments
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by valand 5y ago
I get the sentiment. Consistent means differently for different person. As a non power user Windows is consistent enough. Obviously not for power user who often stray from the green usage path of Windows. Sort of like comparing working on a

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